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Markets &= Morals Reading Questions

 

Questions for = Monopoly on the March

  1. How can a company that only produces 1/50th<= /sup> dictate prices?
  2. What is price fixing? What problems arise from pr= ice fixing?
  3.   Liberty, Happiness…and the Economy̶= 1;

    1. What are the two questions Galbraith says are most often asked about an economic system?
    2. What danger do conservatives imagine about the relationship between the economy and the state?
    3. What does Galbraith say the greater danger is?
    4. What reference does Galbraith make to labor arrangements in early American history?
    5. What is Galbraith’s vision of the relations= hip between economic and aesthetic goals in society? How should the state = be involved in the process?

     

    Questions for The Age of Social Transformation

    1. Drucker explains the shift in workers as we begin= the 21st century. How will the job market change?
    2. Drucker writes, “[d]isplaced industrial wor= kers thus cannot simply move into knowledge work or services the way displa= ced farmers and domestic workers moved into industrial work.” Explain when and why this displacement happened. Why is it different for this current age of transformation.